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The Mere Title Of Lawyer Is Sufficient To Deprive A Man Of The Public Confidence. ... The Most Innocent And Irreproachable Life Cannot Guard A Lawyer Against The Hatred Of His Fellow Citizens.

Whenever Vanity And Gaiety, A Love Of Pomp And Dress, Furniture, Equipage, Buildings, Great Company, Expensive Diversions, And Elegant Entertainments Get The Better Of The Principles And Judgments Of Men And Women, There Is No Knowing Where They Will Stop, Nor Into What Evils, Natural, Moral, Or Political, They Will Lead Us.

While Dwelling With Pleasing Satisfaction Upon The Superior Excellence Of Our Political Institutions, Let Us Not Be Unmindful That Liberty Is Power; That The Nation Blessed With The Largest Portion Of Liberty Must In Proportion To Its Numbers Be The Most Powerful Nation Upon Earth, And That The Tenure Of Power By Man Is, In The Moral Purposes Of His Creator, Upon Condition That It Shall Be Exercised To Ends Of Beneficence, To Improve The Condition Of Himself And His Fellow Men.

The Art Of Making Love, Muffled Up In Furs, In The Open Air, With The Thermometer At Zero, Is A Yankee Invention.

The Constitution Had Provided That All The Public Functionaries Of The Union...should Be Under Oath Or Affirmation For Its Support. The Homage Of Religious Faith Was Thus Superadded To All The Obligations Of Temporal Law To Give It Strength.